AI-Powered Orchestration-as-a-Service for 6G Networks: The 6G-CLOUD View

Jesus Perez-Valero; Gines Garcia-Aviles; Antonio Skarmeta; Tao Chen

doi:10.1109/MCOMSTD.2026.3656636

AI-Powered Orchestration-as-a-Service for 6G Networks: The 6G-CLOUD View

Jesus Perez-Valero^*
, Gines Garcia-Aviles
, Antonio Skarmeta
, Tao Chen

^*Corresponding author for this work

BA7201 Intelligent network solutions

University of Murcia

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Abstract

As 6G networks grow more complex, managing resources and orchestrating services across diverse, dynamic, and energy-efficient environments becomes challenging. This paper presents a programmable Orchestration-as-a-Service (OaaS) Framework from the 6G-Cloud project that enables dynamic, scalable, and intelligent orchestration. The framework separates service orchestration from resource orchestration, supports network service–agnostic management, and integrates AI-driven optimization, digital twins (DT), and Cloud Continuum technologies. Finally, we demostrate the functionality and feasibility of the proposed architecture through an early-stage implementation, where an AI-powered use case for dynamic resource orchestration is validated, showing significant improvements in power efficiency and proactive resource scaling compared to baseline methods.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	33-39
Number of pages	7
Journal	IEEE Communications Standards Magazine
Volume	10
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/MCOMSTD.2026.3656636
Publication status	Published - 2026
MoE publication type	A1 Journal article-refereed

Funding

This work was supported by European Commission through the SNS JU Project 6G-CLOUD under Grant 101139073.

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AI-Powered Orchestration-as-a-Service for 6G Networks: The 6G-CLOUD View

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